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单词 whipper-in
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Definition of whipper-in in English:

whipper-in

nounPlural whippers-in
  • A huntsman's assistant who brings straying hounds back into the pack.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Otis was a whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, based at Birdsall, near Malton.
    • After taking his exams at Marlborough, he went to work for an Irish horse-dealer, then, at 17, joined the Middleton Hunt in North Yorkshire as a whipper-in.
    • The singer, whose son Otis is an assistant whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, which sets off from Malton, has spoken of his support for the pro-hunt Countryside Alliance.
    • A huntsman manages the dogs with the help of his assistants, the whippers-in.
    • The revived pack were, of course, fox-hounds and Patricia Loftus was the joint master with the late Dr. O'Brien as well as being the first whipper-in.
    • ‘We're a very friendly, laid-back hunt with nothing toffee-nosed about us at all,’ says recently-promoted joint hunt master Judith Skilbeck, also whipper-in.
    • So it took me some time to come to terms with the fact that he supports fox hunting and his son is a whipper-in.
    • And what is Anne McGuire thinking of in acting as a whipper-in for these malcontents?
    • His whippers-in rap out commands to straying hounds in their unreproducible, never varying, clipped tones.
    • Their huntsman was Kieran Barrett, Killarney, and the whippers-in were Donal Murphy, Headford, and Dan O'Sullivan, Gneeveguilla.
    • In 1793 three months' hunt wages and the expenses of whippers-in, helpers, hounds and horses kept at Gerrards Cross totalled about 200 [pounds sterling], roughly 53,800 [pounds sterling] a year in today's money.
    • Most of our family and friends hunt so it seemed a great way to celebrate, " said Richard, a livestock farmer and an amateur whipper-in with the South Pembrokeshire Hunt.
    • A whipper-in, asked what they would do if they uncovered a quarry, said smiling: ‘We'll have to see what pops up.’
    • There is also some ado about puppy-walking and what a whipper-in does, and a number of references to hip flasks.
    • Among the functionaries are a musician-fool, and a kind of whipper-in called the Pot-raj.
    • Mr Ferry began his hunting career as a whipper-in with Yorkshire's Middleton Hunt, before becoming the country's youngest master of a hunt, in Shropshire.
    • Some sounded convincing, and might well have once had unions, such as wherrymen, wharfingers, wainscotters, wainwrights and whippers-in.
    • It was Mrs Staveley who taught its present amateur whipper-in, Eric Simpson, to ride when he took up the sport at the age of 45.
    • Mr Ferry is a well-known hunt supporter and joined the Middleton hunt in Yorkshire as a whipper-in four years ago after leaving Marlborough College.

Rhymes

agin, akin, begin, Berlin, bin, Boleyn, Bryn, chin, chin-chin, Corinne, din, fin, Finn, Flynn, gaijin, Glyn, grin, Gwyn, herein, Ho Chi Minh, in, inn, Jin, jinn, kin, Kweilin, linn, Lynn, mandolin, mandoline, Min, no-win, pin, Pinyin, quin, shin, sin, skin, spin, therein, thin, Tientsin, tin, Tonkin, Turin, twin, underpin, Vietminh, violin, wherein, whin, win, within, Wynne, yin
 
 

Definition of whipper-in in US English:

whipper-in

nounˌ(h)wipəˈrinˌ(h)wɪpəˈrɪn
  • A huntsman's assistant who brings straying hounds back into the pack.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The revived pack were, of course, fox-hounds and Patricia Loftus was the joint master with the late Dr. O'Brien as well as being the first whipper-in.
    • Among the functionaries are a musician-fool, and a kind of whipper-in called the Pot-raj.
    • Most of our family and friends hunt so it seemed a great way to celebrate, " said Richard, a livestock farmer and an amateur whipper-in with the South Pembrokeshire Hunt.
    • Some sounded convincing, and might well have once had unions, such as wherrymen, wharfingers, wainscotters, wainwrights and whippers-in.
    • His whippers-in rap out commands to straying hounds in their unreproducible, never varying, clipped tones.
    • After taking his exams at Marlborough, he went to work for an Irish horse-dealer, then, at 17, joined the Middleton Hunt in North Yorkshire as a whipper-in.
    • And what is Anne McGuire thinking of in acting as a whipper-in for these malcontents?
    • ‘We're a very friendly, laid-back hunt with nothing toffee-nosed about us at all,’ says recently-promoted joint hunt master Judith Skilbeck, also whipper-in.
    • Otis was a whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, based at Birdsall, near Malton.
    • Mr Ferry began his hunting career as a whipper-in with Yorkshire's Middleton Hunt, before becoming the country's youngest master of a hunt, in Shropshire.
    • In 1793 three months' hunt wages and the expenses of whippers-in, helpers, hounds and horses kept at Gerrards Cross totalled about 200 [pounds sterling], roughly 53,800 [pounds sterling] a year in today's money.
    • Their huntsman was Kieran Barrett, Killarney, and the whippers-in were Donal Murphy, Headford, and Dan O'Sullivan, Gneeveguilla.
    • A whipper-in, asked what they would do if they uncovered a quarry, said smiling: ‘We'll have to see what pops up.’
    • It was Mrs Staveley who taught its present amateur whipper-in, Eric Simpson, to ride when he took up the sport at the age of 45.
    • So it took me some time to come to terms with the fact that he supports fox hunting and his son is a whipper-in.
    • The singer, whose son Otis is an assistant whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, which sets off from Malton, has spoken of his support for the pro-hunt Countryside Alliance.
    • Mr Ferry is a well-known hunt supporter and joined the Middleton hunt in Yorkshire as a whipper-in four years ago after leaving Marlborough College.
    • A huntsman manages the dogs with the help of his assistants, the whippers-in.
    • There is also some ado about puppy-walking and what a whipper-in does, and a number of references to hip flasks.
 
 
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